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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:33 a.m. on 6 March 2018 carrying the Hispasat 30W-6 telecommunications satellite into orbit. Click for more information and images of the launch.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the GovSat-1 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:25 p.m. on 31 January 2018. I was not able to attend this launch due to a previous commitment so ended up having to take pictures of it from approximately 65 miles south of the launch pad. Click to view the rest of the photos.

SpaceX launched the ZUMA spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket the night of 7 January 2018. Separation of the first and second stage created a surreal multicolored light show of intermixing exhaust gasses in the night sky as the two stages maneuvered away from each other. The second stage to continue carrying the ZUMA spacecraft into orbit and the first stage maneuvering to land back at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Click here to see […]

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon spacecraft on a Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-13) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to low-Earth orbit to deliver 4,800 pounds of crew supplies, science and research equipment, and other cargo to and from the International Space Station for NASA at 10:36 a.m. on 15 December 2017. Seen here, following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force […]

SpaceX launched the ninth of its commercial resupply missions for NASA to the International Space Station on 18 July 2016 at 12:45 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Besides getting the Dragon spacecraft successfully off into orbit, the first stage booster was successfully flown back to a safe touchdown on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral. These images show the entry burn as the engines fire to slow the booster as it falls from a high altitude while traveling […]

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station sending the Thaicom-8 telecommunications satellite into orbit at 5:39 p.m. on 27 May 2016. The rocket passed through a scattered cloud deck on its way to orbit. The Falcon 9 first stage succeeded in its experimental attempt to land on the “Of Course I Still Love You” barge / droneship positioned approximately 400 miles east of Cape Canaveral. Click to view more of […]

SpaceX’s eighth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station (ISS) launched almost 7,000 pounds of science and research –including twenty mice, crew supplies and vehicle hardware aboard a Dragon spacecraft to the orbital laboratory and its crew on 8 April 2016 at 4:43 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. View more photos of the launch, which was pretty spectacular.

Quite a few misadventures when SpaceX finally got the oft-delayed Falcon 9 rocket off the ground carrying the SES-9 satellite into orbit while watching the launch from Blockhouse Beach at Patrick Air Force Base just south of Cape Canaveral. First, the tensioner on one of the tripod legs failed making for some hurried repairs. Then the winter wind was so fierce it tipped over my chair with my heavy camera bag on it dumping everything onto the sand. And then […]

SpaceX conducted its Pad Abort Test even with storms passing just offshore. Crew Dragon used its SuperDraco rockets as a launch escape system to propel Dragon from a simulated rocket failure on the pad to safely parachute the spacecraft into the Atlantic Ocean just offshore. View a gallery of images of the test.

The stiff wind carried quite a chill while waiting on the beach for the 4:47 a.m. launch of the fifth SpaceX Commercial Resupply (CRS) mission to the International Space Station on 10 January 2015 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The winter weather brought with it a stubborn cloud deck that would not dissipate like I hoped all night it would as is clearly evident in the time exposure from the beach of the launch. Though the Dragon spacecraft is […]